From the December 2022 Federal Point Historic Preservation Society Newsletter.
From a 1973 Wilmington-Starc News article by Bill Reaves.
It was certainly a cheerless Christmas Eve, 133 years ago (now 158 years ago in 2022) inside the high earthen walls of Fort Fisher. The weather was frightful and the Confederacy was on its knees.
Each Confederate soldier attempted to get some kind of dinner in honor of the holiday, and some were fortunate enough to receive some meager food boxes from Wilmington and surrounding areas.
Some were very unfortunate indeed whose homes were great distances away and they had nothing whatever delectable which would impart some memory of Christmas in the past.
Great genius was necessary to create a holiday dinner out of a pound of fat pork, six crackers and a quart of dried apples. It was not impossible to see a bit of culinary art burst forth with apple dumplings, with which some sorghum molasses were not to be despised.
--Old B-Runner
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